Posts by Hi Wreck
65 posts • joined Wednesday 17th September 2008 12:56 GMT
Put a stake in it
And give the shareholders their money back.
Re: Facepalm...
I think we need a few more TROLL roads to make us all pay pay pay.
I'm lost
What about maps? Google saved iOS's sorry arse.
Superior technology?
Assuming that Microsoft does indeed produce superior technology, it doesn't matter provided that what already exists is good enough. Just ask Sony. Etc.
Posted in Nokia turns a PROFIT. Sort of
Mark Twain said...
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme (cough Nortel cough).
New CEO to save company (Zafirovski/Elop). Check.
Cut staff. Check.
Cut product lines. Check.
Cut dividends. Check (this one is the kiss of death.)
It's sad to see.
Posted in Mobile phone sales slump bites Nokia
Units shipped?
Or money made. I dare say the former, not the latter.
Re: Nothing to see here
Sinofsky has probably gone about as far within Microsoft as he can without displacing Ballmer. He probably reckons that isn't likely.
Perhaps he knows of an opening at Nokia? (or RIM?)
Re: "Microsoft actually writes fantastic software"
Fantastic for Intel. But us plebes? I think not.
Re: IE x2...., "can't even share bookmarks"
This must mean that the two personalities are running completely different code bases. I would have thought the boffins in Redmond would have learned about Model View Controller by now.
Re: security
Java - write once, run anywhere. How do you think Intel is trying to gain traction with Android phones?
Otherwise, compile for ARM and Intel. Apple did that for a while with their fat binaries.
Assuming of course...
That Microsoft can actually get the thing out the door. Vapourware Lumina versus shipping Galaxy III and iPhone5.
Featurecide...
They haven't figured out which parts they have to kill, provided that they can in fact remove them, in order to get thing out the door. This does not bode well.
Re: Well....
Don't you mean four? RIM isn't quite dead yet.
Nt
NT started off as a nice micro kernel but that all got tossed out of the pram when they integrated the GUI stuff into the kernel. It has taken them eons to fix that one. Look at QNX for a micro kernel and OS that would do Tannenbaum proud.
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Posted in Microsoft kills Windows Live brand
Cloudy with a chance of showers
Perhaps the new service will be called l-i-veCloud, without any emphasis on the 'i' of course.
It does seem fitting. Apple had to re-imagine mobile me too, so this is par for the course for microSoft.
Long live the queen
Victoria, that is.
When you jump off of a burning platform
One should at a minimum don one's survival suit.
And there's the rub...
No wonder AAPL is rolling in the dough. All those different handsets, all just slightly different. The testing must be a right royal pain in the arse.
Segment registers - wow
So the stack, BSS and code will be disjoint now. What a concept! Mark BSS and Stack non-executable and the code non-writeable. What a concept! I wonder why M$ never figured it out, even though separate segments have been around since the 60s on various machines. I guess one must keep that legacy self-modifying code running.
Nokia will be next
Google needed the patents. The lawyers must be salivating even as I type.
Posted in Cisco may slash 10,000 jobs
Deja Vu?
Nortel?
At least Cisco (still) has money in the bank.
{[Time] (to) {ditch {C syntax}}} ? ;
"The choice of C syntax came about in the early days of the PC, through the need for a language which would deliver satisfactory perfromance on the puny 8086 processors of the day, but which would offer easier coding than pure assembly language. "
Hardly. Try PDP-8 and -11, both of which pre-date the 8080, let alone the 8086, quite substantially. Verbosity was NOT a feature of the language since VT-100 terminals at 9600 baud were all the rage. Real programmers (TM) hate to type.
MELTemi
As in sales... How appropriate (unfortunately).
iPhone, yes, iPod, no.
If a tablet is a phone, then Anderoid may dominate. If the tablet is a pod, then it's Apple's all the way. There have been lots of cheap, and not-so-cheap attempts at de-throning the iPod, but none to date have been successful.
And those "actors" are?
"Microsoft researchers unveiled some details of the ServiceOS project last summer, referring to it as a 'multi-principal OS-based browser' for controlling web services and devices."
And who might those 'principals' be? I always thought there was only one princiPAL running a school or that there was a princiPAL architect who ran the show.
Oh, you mean principle... never mind then.
Posted in Spanish whispers on Microsoft and Nokia
Tablets
The only thing related to tablets that one should use with respect to Microsoft are those labelled "Aspirin".
Share price movement simplified.
Buy on rumour, sell on facts.
Alas Finland, I'm sad to say you now have your own Nortel.
Paris, cause she knows about going down big time.
Later and later
It's no wonder that Nokia is burning faster than the Hindenburg when you consider that their "customer" isn't the person who actually uses the device. Elop may no be a Trojan, but he sure has the same DNA as his previous employer.
Off by one error
Microsoft needs a re-org all right, but they started too low in the management hierarchy. They really ought to clean house starting at the board of directors and work their way down from there.
Cisco's real problem...
is Huawei.
What comes around...
Maybe Huawei is afraid that Nokia/Siemens is going to rediscover their own code.
Stable Products?
The only stable thing coming from Microscoft is their earning-per-share "beat" each and every quarter. And even that's somewhat questionable.
Get a Free WP7 phone with an XBOX 360
Er, other way around... Telus (in the Queen's colony of Canada) is advertising a "FREE XBOX 360", provided, bien sur, that you "buy" a WP7 on contract. Talk about a loss leader.
Posted in Beeb deploys ISS as unit of measurement
No wonder
Did anyone actually think that a journalist could do math?
More important to Reg readers, how many pints does that equal?
Er, actually it ran fine on 128k...
"Ever try to run a Unix system on a 16bit processor with 512K of RAM? I think not. Unix was expensive and was much to large for the hardware. MS-DOS was cheap and ran just fine."
It worked fine on a PDP-11/45 with split I and D (making a whopping 128K of memory), and the disk may have had 20M on a good day. It also supported more than one user. So, your point is?
Micro kernels also work fine. Just ask the QNX folks. MS couldn't get the video working well enough with the uKernel, so we now have the monster that is NT and the joys of DLL.
And in other news
Bears defecate in the woods.
Posted in Czechs toast Bud-beating beer win
Bud
Not only can they not make beer, they can't spell either: ie "Bud Lite".
$diety only knows how one could make Bud in a "lite" version to begin with.
Posted in So long then, Windows 2000
W2K For warships
Were they not towed back to port? (hopefully, for a refit).
Maildir
Just use IMAP to access your mailboxes.
LDAP
You can read LDAP already. Writing LDAP appears to be a can of worms.
Setting LDAP access within thunderbird is not terribly obvious though. Go to the address book, then click on "FILE"->new->LDAP address book and away you go.
Posted in Adobe lines up emergency Flash fix
Thank goodness for flashblock.
And for Steve baby for not putting Crash, er Flash, on the iPhone.
If you don't like it....
Anti trust.... why on earth would there be anti-trust involved? It's not like the world is dependent on iPhones and iPads now is it. If you don't like the product, don't buy it. Google is flogging phones which run flash, no? (er, strike that one...)
Apple has great customer support, and I am sure they're really happy about NOT getting billions of calls about short battery lifetimes because of some proprietary application draining the device in an hour or so.
Also, remind me again about the contributions to software engineering made by Adobe.
Eating your own dog food.
I guess microsoft is discovering the hard way all of the maddening inconsistencies in handling javascript, most of which were caused by...... microsoft. Have fun.
Remind me again
Why people actually choose windows.
Signed a happy solaris "downtime, what's that?" user.
Bing...
> Screw the results or the features...who came up with the name "Bing" anyway???
Because Its Not Google???????
Can they count
Cisco used to count the bandwidth going into AND out of the router when they came up with their capacity figures (i.e, your 1MB stream counted as 2MB through their router). Are they still up to this trick, or can the CRS 3 actually pass the quoted number????
"When things worked".
I think that's the operative phrase, something that tends to rather foreign to Microsoft at times. It seems to work quite well for the folks in Cupertino too.
Posted in Google buys app, removes from app store
There's no app for that...
What do you want to bet there will be 10 replacements out there within a week.
Time to start hacking!
Windows Series Seven
They're probably trying to tie it with their Windows Seven OS. None the less, who cares? The boat left the dock years ago.
